The increasing amount of ‘unhealthy’ food consumed outside the home is thought to be a major contributory factor to growing levels of obesity. To tackle the problem and promote changes in catering and consumption behaviour, initiatives designed to encourage out-of-home caterers to provide healthier menus or adopt healthier cooking practices have been developed. Such voluntary agreements, rather...

The ShakeOut Scenario is probably the most widely known and used earthquake scenario created to date. Much of the credit for its widespread dissemination and application lies with scenario development criteria that focused on the needs and involvement of end users and with a suite of products that tailored communication of the results to varied end users, who ranged from emergency managers to t...

The links between childhood eating behaviours and parental feeding practices are well-established in younger children, but there is a lack of research examining these variables in a preadolescent age group, particularly from the child's perspective, and longitudinally. This study firstly aimed to examine the continuity and stability of preadolescent perceptions of their parents' controlling fee...

AIM To develop affordable, appropriate, and nutritious recipes based on local food resources and dietary practices that have the potential to improve infant feeding practices. METHODS We carried out a mixed methods study following the World Health Organization's evaluation guidelines on the promotion of child feeding. We recruited caregivers with children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, Hebe...

The aim of this paper is through a qualitative study to determine how efficient academic entrepreneurship training occurs in an academic environment and how these programmes are structured and organised. Data from 20 different university training programmes at 12 European countries were analysed. We used a check-list to gather information on these items: Promoter, programmes, target groups, key...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the determinants of purchase of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and explore the policy implications of the findings for ITN programmes. METHODS Two surveys were conducted 1 month apart in three villages. The first survey was used to determine stated willingness to pay (WTP) and respondent practices regarding untreated nets and ITNs. The second survey was accompanied ...

the aim of this study was to identify and prioritize the risky behaviors and explore the newly emerging pi related to egyptian habits that may lead to hcv transmission.from january 2011 until january 2012, a case control study matched on socio demographic factors was conducted comparing 540 hepatitis c patients and their contacts who were hcv serologically negative (102 subjects). they were ran...

OBJECTIVE To investigate bacterial culture practices in veterinary clinics, with an emphasis on laboratory biosafety and on quality of laboratory practices. DESIGN Survey-based prospective study. SAMPLE POPULATION 166 veterinarians. PROCEDURES Veterinarians were recruited through the Veterinary Information Network (an Internet-based network restricted to veterinary personnel). All Network...

BACKGROUND Mink are an important animal commodity group in Canada and excessive kit mortality represents a significant loss to production. National biosecurity standards have been developed for Canadian mink farms, but it is unclear how well these standards have been implemented as there are no studies correlating management practices of mink producers with causes of death in mink kits. To that...